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Check if your Gmail password was one of millions Hacked

A list of 5 million Gmail addresses and passwords appeared on a Russian Bitcoin forum Wednesday.

It is still unclear how anyone obtained the vast collection of
usernames and passwords. Google says its servers were not breached. The
list appears to be a collection of passwords exposed in previous hacks —
likely on users’ own computers, not Google’s systems.

“We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised,” said Google spokeswoman Caroline Matthews.

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Any company with an online network, website or server is subject to hacking or other malicious attacks. These web attacks can jeopardize confidential personal and financial data and can also cripple a company’s online presence. The end result usually involves a company’s loss of money, time and/or credibility. Fortunately, these losses and disruptions can be avoided if the right safety precautions are implemented. Every company should prioritize online security and its management should be left in the capable hands of specialists.

Located in Mississauga, Ontario, BLOCKDOS is one of the Leading Canadian Security company that offer comprehensive online security services. BLOCKDOS not only mitigates any attacks on a company’s network, but also takes the necessary measures to prevent such attacks from happening in the first place. Through BLOCKDOS, a company can be confident that their entire network is securely hosted and set up to only allow appropriate traffic to come through. BLOCKDO…

Picture Source : Google Images The ultimate goal of a DDoS attack is to bring down the targeted site by flooding it with fake requests, usually from multiple locations.

Thousands of DDoS attacks take place every day and typically these attacks last for a number of days.

But not all of these attacks take days before they die down. There are also short duration DDoS attacks that only take a few minutes. These short duration attacks have the same modus operandi where attackers coordinate and launch the attack full throttle.

These short duration DDoS attacks are becoming more and more talked about and are happening more often as their frequency has increased in comparison to full blown DDoS attacks that last way longer.

An early trend that has been spotted with these short bursts of DDoS attacks is that apparently they’re carried out primarily to divert site owner’s attention.

In this article, we would like to address what happens when this type of attack targets a site and possible protection…

As a gamer would progress to the new level in a game he meets a new more powerful nemesis who’s ready to make our player’s virtual life more and more troublesome and makes it harder for him to progress further in the game. Well, for the gamers of our age, their nemesis is back and this time round it’s armed to the teeth with new weaponry under its sleeve that makes it even the more powerful and harder to defeat. It’s DDoS aiming at gamers.

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In addition to that, an 18-year-old UK man has been arrested as part of an investigation into the recent DDOS attacks that crippled PlayStation and Xbox services over Christmas.

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